{"id":729,"date":"2006-11-23T00:55:21","date_gmt":"2006-11-23T04:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2006\/11\/23\/as-the-wow-turns\/"},"modified":"2006-11-23T00:55:21","modified_gmt":"2006-11-23T04:55:21","slug":"as-the-wow-turns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2006\/11\/23\/as-the-wow-turns\/","title":{"rendered":"As the WoW Turns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">This may sound like a broken record skip, but sorry for the lack of posts these past weeks. \u00a0Occasionally real life creeps into my gaming addiction and I have to deal with demands for actual on the job performance.\u00a0 Such was the case these past few weeks, but now I can relax a bit over the Thanksgiving break.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">I made the difficult decision to quit my guild today.\u00a0 I am an officer in this guild, so my decision to leave was very hard to make. \u00a0You see, I am a WoW raider.\u00a0 That\u2019s what I really enjoy doing in the game. \u00a0I like the rush I feel after 20 or so people take down a boss for the first time. \u00a0And I do not enjoy PvP (player v. player) in the battlegrounds. \u00a0Raiding is what I live for in WoW-land.\u00a0 So when my guild seemed to spend more and more time doing PvP, I had to make a decision about what was best for my entertainment dollar.\u00a0 And out the door I went\u2026\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Now I am a free agent looking for a large raiding guild.\u00a0 These are difficult to get into and choosing a guild that fits your personality is a worrisome process.\u00a0 I am, ahem, an older gamer who doesn\u2019t necessarily enjoy a lot of the teenager humor I put up with in my old guild. \u00a0Therefore, my primary objective is to find a more mature guild that raids in the evenings.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">I\u2019ve submitted one application and I\u2019ll let you know how it goes.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This may sound like a broken record skip, but sorry for the lack of posts these past weeks. \u00a0Occasionally real life creeps into my gaming addiction and I have to deal with demands for actual on the job performance.\u00a0 Such was the case these past few weeks, but now I can relax a bit over &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2006\/11\/23\/as-the-wow-turns\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">As the WoW Turns<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}